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In 1955, the district replaced the province as the country's main administrative unit. [17] The Ampara District was created in April 1961, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] followed by the creation of the Mullaitivu and Gampaha districts in September 1978 [ 20 ] through a new constitution , which also reintroduced the provinces as the main administrative units. [ 21 ]
The short lived North Eastern Province. The number of provinces remained static until September 1988 when, in accordance with the Indo-Lanka Accord, President J. R. Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Northern and Eastern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. [12]
In 1955, the district replaced the province as the country's main administrative unit. [10] Ampara District was created in April 1961, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] followed by the creation of Mullaitivu and Gampaha districts in September 1978 [ 13 ] through a new constitution , which also reintroduced the province as the main administrative unit. [ 14 ]
Divisional secretariats are the third-level administrative divisions of the country and there are currently [as of?] 331 divisional secretariats in Sri Lanka. [1] They were formerly known as D.R.O. divisions, after the divisional revenue officer. Later the D.R.O.s became assistant government agents and the givisions were known as A.G.A. divisions.
Divisional Secretariats Portal; Dodangoda Divisional Secretariat is situated in the western part of Kalutara district and bordered from north by Divisional Secretariats of Kalutara, Bandaragama and Madurawala; from east by Divisional Secretariat of Madurawala and Matugama; and from west by Divisional Secretariats of Beruwala and Kalutara.
Trincomalee District's population was 378,182 in 2012. [1] The population of the district, like the rest of the east and north, has been heavily affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. [16] Several hundred thousand Sri Lankan Tamils, possibly as much as one million, emigrated to the West during the war. [17]
UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time) Area code: 033: ... Mirigama Divisional Secretariat is a Divisional Secretariat of Gampaha District, of Western Province, Sri Lanka.
The annual updating of the electoral register in Sri Lanka is done by house-to-house enumeration. The civil war prevented house-to-house enumeration from taking place in most of the Northern Province from the mid-1980s onwards. For these areas the Department of Elections instead took the previous year's register and added anyone who had since ...